Kristina Boréus and Göran Bergström (eds), <i>Analyzing Text and Discourse: Eight Approaches for the Social Sciences</i>

Jiang, Jiaxing

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“…Recognition consists of speech acts, or 'otherwise symbolic acts that communicate the acknowledgement of the ontological, legal, and moral status of certain objects and subjects' 38 (p. 110). While policy discourse includes descriptive statements about the nature of failure, they might also involve prescriptive statements embracing novel policy ideas and/or instruments leading to policy change 39 . Even though policy change as 'the description and explanation of changes in dominant policy patterns in different fields' is the core interest of public analysis, there are different conceptualisations and measurements of this dependent variable 40 (p. 251).…”

Section: An Analytical Framework For Energy Policy Failuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

Policy failures and energy transitions: the regulatory bricolage for the promotion of renewable energy in Mexico and Chile

Natorski

Solorio

2023

npj Clim. Action

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Latin American and Caribbean countries experience energy transitions in the context of crises affecting power electric systems. This article shows that policy failure recognition constitutes a window of opportunity for regulatory reforms supporting the diffusion of renewable energy. This argument is illustrated with the cases of Mexico and Chile, both of which are regional leaders in renewable energy after policy reforms. In both cases, policy failures were key drivers of energy transition since they mobilised different actors in the pursuit of policy changes. However, policy responses depended on how different policy failures were interpreted as the origins and solutions to perceived energy crises. This study distinguishes between critical and ordinary policy failures. In the case of a critical failure, dominant policy ideas are placed under contest; whereas, in an ordinary policy failure, the normative underpinning of the policy remains valid, and it fails only in implementation. Because policy change in the energy sector is incremental, reactions to failures lead to a policy bricolage combining novel and older policy goals and instruments. This process shifts the balance in the prioritisation of the energy trilemma components (energy equity, security of supply, and environmental sustainability).

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Section: An Analytical Framework For Energy Policy Failuresmentioning

confidence: 99%